Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook is finally testing out a major way to monetize the Messenger platform and that concerns ads. Quite sizable ones, which’ll sit below your recent conversations. The social network’s messaging app will allow businesses in Australia and Thailand to advertise on the home screen. They’ll consist of an image followed by a text and a link. The link can be ...

None of us want strangers accessing our accounts online. You might use a password manager, or two-factor authentication via SMS, but there’s another way you can stay protected — physical security keys. Following Google, Dropbox and others, Facebook has added support for these privacy-centric dongles today. When you log into your account, that means you can choose to prove your ...

Facebook isn’t exactly a stellar example of a company that values your privacy, but it just made its features’ privacy settings much easier to understand. The social network has debuted a redesigned Privacy Basics section, which now works better on mobile and contains more interactive guides to help make sure your account is safe and stalker-proof. When you visit the ...

A Security researcher named Dan Melamed recently figured out a way to delete any video on Facebook. His discovery of the video-deleting loophole was brought to the notice of Facebook, with the social giant thanking him for his efforts and awarding him $10,000 as part of its bug hunting bounty program. How The Exploit Works Melamed’s method is outrageously simple. ...

In September, Facebook CEO and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century. To get a little bit closer to that goal, the Initiative ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees virtual reality as a future computing platform that his company has a chance to own, though he admits it may take 5 – 10 years to bring it to the masses. Members of the press had a rare opportunity to get a more unfiltered view into the future of Facebook’s virtual reality ambitions as Zuckerberg took ...

A German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung shared a report, citing internal documents, which reveals how Facebook takes care of hate speech and fake news. The report was published in the papers last week, when the German politicians threatened to create laws against social networks for refusing to permanently delete hate speech or fake news from their platforms. The internal documents in ...

Supposedly The King of all social media platforms and giant sized company Facebook started posting notices to its several users implying that they were dead, this incidence happened on last Friday. It has been reported by several users of Facebook that they received a official message from Facebook in which they were referred by name and noticed as dead. ...

Just a few days after Slack began putting pressure on Skype with its group video-calling feature, Facebook is joining the battle to dethrone Skype as the default video conferencing queen. Back in April, Facebook launched group voice calls on its Messenger app for mobile, and now the full version is ready for your desktop. This weekend, the social media giant ...

Four third party sites will help check the news on Facebook for hoaxes and spam news. Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, ABC News and AP will help Facebook with this endeavor. Earlier, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned the steps the company was taking in order to solve the problem. Four of these have been completed thus far. The necessary steps were to: ...